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Why have these 26 ex-laboratory chimpanzees not been retired to a sanctuary?
From SpeciesUnite.com
May 2024
Nearly a decade after the US ended invasive chimpanzee research and promised to send all remaining great apes to sanctuary, 26 chimps remain in limbo at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico.
Pam - Image from SaveTheChimps.org
More than two dozen chimpanzees are trapped inside a laboratory in
New Mexico despite not being used in medical research for over two
decades, according to campaigners.
In 2013, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listed chimpanzees
as endangered, restricting the majority of invasive animal research
on the species.
This was followed by an announcement in 2015 by the US National
Institutes of Health (NIH) that it would end its support of
biomedical research on chimpanzees and retire the remaining great
apes to a federally funded sanctuary in Louisiana called Chimp
Haven.
However, more than eight years on, that promise has not been
fulfilled, leaving 26 chimpanzees in limbo at the Alamogordo Primate
Facility.
Why Have the Chimps Not Been Retired to a Sanctuary?
Soon after it was announced that the remaining chimps would be
retired to Chimp Haven, Charles River Laboratories received a
government contract funded with taxpayer dollars to warehouse
chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility on Holloman Air Force
Base in New Mexico, according to the Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS).
Opposition to the chimps' retirement to the sanctuary came after a
veterinarian for Charles River Laboratories claimed that many of the
chimps were too fragile to be moved and should instead spend the
rest of their lives at the laboratory.
In 2019, the NIH announced it had adopted the recommendations of the
veterinarian, citing an independent veterinary panel review that
agreed the primates still at Alamogordo were too sick to leave.
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Chimp Haven is home to more than 300 retired laboratory chimps.
Credit: Chimp Haven
Posted on All-Creatures.org: May 28, 2024
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